Bank of England figures for September show approvals for new home loans were static compared with AugustFears of a double-dip in the housing market were exacerbated today with news that the number of ...

• Housing market heads for double dip• Mortgage finance in short supplyNida Ali, economic adviser to Ernst & Young ITEM Club"Today's figures complement our view that the UK housing market is indee...

Warning from watchdog as hundreds of millions of pounds of loans made available to people with poor credit historyThree years after huge losses on sub-prime mortgages sparked the global financial melt...

Lauren Booth and her sister Cherie Blair are becoming the sort of spoof characters who can no longer be covered in the serious parts of the paperAn enormously proud day for both this column and the co...

A new report adds to the evidence that having sisters benefits your mental health. Lucy Mangan feels vindicated in her belief that girls ruleGirls are top! That is the conclusion of yet another study,...

When one writer joined an online dating site, she was horrified to be called everything from 'ugly black girl' to 'Nubian queen'In the disappointingly cool summer of 2009, I bit the bullet and joined ...

Getting on all fours and making noises, I can understand. But now things have got weirdI've been married to my husband for 15 years. Our sex life was very good for several years and then dwindled. Thi...

What do you turn to when struck down? A simple tin of tomato soup or more exotic, homespun fare?I wonder what Hippocrates would have made of our propensity to reach for a little sachet of powdered "le...

An ambitious study in Newcastle has recruited a thousand 85-year-olds to help solve the puzzle of why our cells ageFirst the good news. Average life expectancy increases by five hours every single day...

Miranda is joined this month by the prize-winning author and former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo, and by veteran agony aunt Anna Raeburn.They discuss the recent case of the Lincolnshire family...